Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is not customary to love what one has
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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